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I think it's a very legitimate aspect of American life to criticize and to disagree and to debate. But I want to say I think… — John McCain
The Hasidic rabbi, Zuscha, was asked on his deathbed what he thought the kingdom of God would be like. He replied, "I don't know. But… — Alan Loy McGinnis
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in every class: "Stay… — Rachel Naomi Remen
If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I… — Flavia Weedn
The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment… — Elizabeth Hardwick
Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London… — Dennis Brown
And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said.… — Brandon Sanderson
Every human being is a repeated question asked to the spirit of the Universe. — Mihai Eminescu
A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman. — Gracie Allen
I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked. — Bob Ross
I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know,… — Julian Sands
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at… — Leo Tolstoy
If someone asked you, why not help him out? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your… — Winston Churchill
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be… — C.S. Lewis
I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring… — Brad Delson
To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view… — George Eliot
I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I… — Thomas Jefferson
My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. — Michael Dolan
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor? — Charles Lenox Remond
King Croesus, watching Persian soldiers sack [his capital city], is supposed to have asked the Persian King Cyrus, 'What is it that all those men… — Diodorus Siculus
Jesus Christ did not ask much from us, He did not demand that people climb Mount Everest or make great sacrifices. He just asked that… — Chico Xavier
Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And… — Michael Crichton
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it… — Richard E. Grant
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is… — Andy Rooney

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